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  • Jobs: Sr Coldfusion Developer & MS Access DB

    The first positions is in Alpharetta- GA and its a 3-6 month contractual position with a possible extension, must have good communication skills.

    Sr Coldfusion Developer
    Migration Project -CF MX 5.0 platform to 7.0 platform

    Description of Position:(Including application, project & range responsibilities)

    Senior Web Designer whose responsibility is to migrate the current SPL Online application from CF MX 5.0 platform to 7.0 platform.

    Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: (including # of years of experience by skill)
    ColdFusion MX experience is must HTML development experience
    Java Script
    development Oracle/SQL skill LoadRunner experience is plus
    Fluent verbal English skills are required.

    Education:
    B.S. Degree in Computer Science or equivlent 5+ years Web Development experience in Information Technology.

    2) This is a MS Access DB ongoing assignment that can be done offsite and would require from 10 – 20 hours per week. MS Access DB programming knowledge is required. If you or someone you know is interested and qualified, please contact me directly at 404-932-3159.

    Britt Stephens
    New Media Registry
    404-932-3159
    www.newmediaregistry.com

  • Flex & Flash: Refreshing Screen During Processor Intensive Operations

    I did this to help illustrate to a homey on the Flexcoders list how you update the screen during intense operations. As was suggested by multiple Macromedians, you should have a counter keep track of where you are in the data processing, and only process a set chunk amount, update the screen, and continue processing.

    You can accomplish this through a series of doLaters. They are not perfect because they don’t ensure the same method isn’t called more than once per frame unecessarely, but trying to explain to a Java developer what:

    functon onEnterFrame()
    {
    callMethod();
    delete onEnterFrame;
    }

    …does really isn’t worth it.

    Anyway, here’s a good example any Flexer or Flasher can use to see how to update your GUI with a ProgressBar for example when you have a very processor intensive loop going on in the background.

    Update GUI While Processing

  • Your Arm Is Worthless

    “We don’t take arms here, sir.”

    That’ll be the reply in 2012 from a fast-food-dispenser machine mechanic when they start inserting microchips into your wrist that contains credit/debit card information, and you go to an establishment that doesn’t accept that as a method of payment.

    “Uh… wtf? My arm works just fine thank you; I can code with it AND pay for this meal you twit!”

    I guess since I live in the boonies, Mickey-Dees-nuts assumes us country folk don’t use dem dere creh-dit kards…

    Dude, it’s the 20th century, cash & checks are so for my parents generation… and there IS a difference between a debit card and a credit card… idiots.

    I can go 2 exits further towards Atlanta, and they take debit cards there… idiots.

  • Getter & Setter Inheritance Gotcha

    I remember reading something about this a year ago on Flashcoders, but never ran into it until today. Basically, if you extend a class that has a getter and a setter on it, your sub-class can access them just fine. However, if your sub-class defines a getter or setter of the same name, it overwrites the one on the superclass.

    So, if make a new setter function that does something slightly different in the sub-class, since the sub-class can no longer call the getter, it fails.

    That blows.